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How likely is it that there's an animal on earth that's smarter than human beings in key areas? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by cinoreus@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Let me elaborate, how likely is that there's an animal on earth that's smarter than us? By smarter, I understand intelligence is a nuanced topic unique to different animals, so for the sake of argument, let's talk about, mathematics, critical thinking about where and how to apply those mathematical concepts, and creativity in any form.

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

And yet every professional physicist will tell you that physics IS math, and that if you don't understand the math, you can’t understand physics, and shouldn't try.

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

As a physicist, physics is not math. Math is a tool you can use to do physics, but you can absolutely do physics without it. In fact, qualitative physics is the best kind.

[–] klankin@piefed.ca 1 points 6 days ago

Physics is a mathematical model with the most proven utility to humans.

If you have a model more applicable to a situation, youre free to use it, but its pretty unlikely to be as broadly applicable as modern mathematical physics (A thousand times so when considering computers).

But yeah the study of physics is 100% math (And its not 100% a perfect model of reality! Thats why we study it).